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Should we, people who remain married to justice, accept that international law, if it ever did work, is today defunct? In a broader sense, when we pursue its application are we in danger of creating a sense of false hope. These are the existential questions we are now asking ourselves as the genocide proceeds at pace into its 2nd year.

My guest today is Francesca Albanese, an international lawyer who has been in the eye of the storm, speaking truth at the highest levels. Francesca specialises in international humanitarian law and is the special rapporteur for the UN reporting on Palestine.

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3:21 – Is international law the problem?

5:05 – ICC ruling, why the delayed decision?

7:07 – How effective are the ICJ judgements ?

9:54 – Who is the system working for?

11:05 – Is Francesca hopeful about international justice?

13:27 – David Lammy and the definition of genocide

16:51 – The reluctance of the West to call this a genocide

19:30 – Is October 7th a catalyst for ethnic cleansing?

26:03 – Can Israel be isolated by the UN?

29:27 – Arab and Muslim countries lack of solidarity

33:48 – How successful can the ICJ complaint be?

37:08 – Weaponizing of antisemitism

41:40 – How can young Muslims stay active?

44:45 – How does Francesca stay motivated in an unjust world?

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There’s an assumption that the West have remained honest brokers in the Gaza genocide, or at least critical friends of Israel. My guest today Matt Kennard argues that contrary to public utterances, the British government, like the Americans are deeply involved in Israel’s merciless bombing of Gaza. They are providing military support, intelligence, diplomatic cover whilst at the same time claiming they want a quick resolution to the slaughter.

Matt is an independent journalist and author of three books Irregular Army, Silent coup and The Racket

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2:03 – Britain’s participation in the Gaza genocide

7:48 – The secrecy around the intelligence

10:26 – Britain leads in giving intelligence to Israel

12:11 – How do we apply pressure on the Labour government?

15:37 – We need transparency around Cyprus

24:23 – Mainstream media’s complicity

32:15 – Has the Labour government really shifted?

37:29 – Labour has lost control of the narrative

42:37 – How can the activist space reset their focus

51:42 – How do we recalibrate the Palestinian movement

54:11 – Have people moved on from Gaza?

59:29 – What can we do?

1:04:31 – The role of the Muslim Community

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The US elections are nearly upon us, and we have all be subject to the empty words and rhetoric of of the two main political parties. The Green Party has gained a lot of traction, especially amongst the countries small but very important Muslim community. I have already interviewed the leader of the Greens, Dr Jill Stein. But Today I have the pleasure to speak with Professor Butch Bilal Ware, its Vice Presidential nominee.

Professor Butch Ware is a lifelong activist and educator specializing in the history of empire, colonialism, genocide and revolution. For the past two decades, Ware has put scholarship in service of the people, especially in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, as well as the George Floyd murder in 2020.

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2:00 Embrace Islam at 15

5:00 Malcolm X and radicalism

9:09 Sufis and being radical

13:21 Diluting radical tradition

19:40 Green Party and Liberals

23:25 Green’s and social issues

31:57 Uyghurs and foreign policy

40:06 His political leanings

45:55 Can Muslims work independently

52:44 Voting for Trump

58:31 George Floyd

1:03:32 Fascism in US

1:11:42 Dismantling Empire

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The Abandon Harris campaign has been making waves across the US. It has galvanised largely Muslim and conscientious Americans so build a coalition together to resist the genocidal administration through the ballot box. They have a lot of detractors, paid democratic people ready to defame them. But my guest today is relentless.

Hassan Abdel Salam is one of two founders of the Abandon Harris movement. He is also the Executive Director of the Civil Rights Alliance for America, which is the organization that is organizing and coordinating the Abandon Harris movement. Hassan Abdel Salam has been a professor of strategy, movements, and human rights, for 12 years.

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1:30 – His movements

5:54 – The Greens

9:13 – Is this realistic ?

18:40 – A return to Democrats

23:32 – Trump

28:20 – Are you winning?

35:51 – Is the appeal just Muslim?

43:44 – Speaking truth

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I know that not all Americans value what I have to say on the US elections. However, I do receive many emails and messages daily asking for advice, and my podcast, The Thinking Muslim, has been fairly instrumental in setting the correct intellectual parameters in parts of the US Muslim community when forming a conscious electoral decision on November 5th.

My original position was to echo the views of many leaders within the US Muslim community who have said Muslim voters must disavow the two parties and opt for a third-party option, whoever that may be. But upon reflection, I think that advice, although in the right direction, will not procure the intended result – simply because it will diffuse the messaging of our vote. And thus diffuse its ability to make a statement. That’s why I have concluded that Muslims must vote for the Green Party on November 5th, even if they disagree, as I do, with some parts of their policy platform and public positions.

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The pro-genocide administration of Biden and Harris has been involved in a frenetic outreach to America’s small but vocal Muslim community. These critical constituents in crucial battleground states like Michigan are where November’s election will be won or lost. Both parties, the Democrats and Republicans, are Zionist to their core, but this genocide has happened with the seal of approval and the consent of the Biden-Harris administration.

Is Gaza a turning point? Can we move beyond this two-party nightmare? Are third-party options plausible in a system that approves only two possibilities? Or is voting for anyone but the two bad options a wasted vote? And what of the broader question of the US empire and its propensity to violence? How will this election address what the world observes as an imperium without moral or ethical standards?

Today I have a very special guest, Dr Jill Stein, leader of the Green Party and Presidential candidate. Jill is a Harvard educated doctor, an environmentalist, campaigner and organiser.

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2:00 Is a vote for the Green Party a vote for Trump?

6:27 Voters vs Donors

7:31 Why is Kamala Harris not opposing the Genocide?

9:22 Does the Green Party have a Syria problem?

12:47 Oppressive leaders

14:24 Mehdi Hasan's position on Kamala Harris

20:33 How does voting Green Party help Gaza?

22:00 Green Party being contested

23:30 AIPAC is running America

25:38 The Responsibility of a Third Party

32:41 Building a Third Party for the American people

35:00 Muslims in the Green Party

39:50 5% of The Popular vote

44:46 Dr Stein's vision of American power?

50:59 Where do Ordinary Americans stand?

59:26 It's Not Too Late

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I have been struck by the thoughtful and nuanced conversations that are being had across the US about the coming elections. But there remains confusion. One such community that probably has reason to be sceptical of mainstream Muslim organisations and their approach to politics, as relationships, is the all-important African American Muslim community – very often neglected in any conversation.

I have invited today to show someone who I deeply respect for how he thought through these essential topics long before Gaza came along to haunt us. Imam Dawud Walid is the author of Towards Sacred Activism and an Imam in Michigan.

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We have seen the horrific genocidal scenes unfolding in the north of Gaza and in particular the onslaught by the occupation in Jabaliya. There is a horrendous cleansing of Palestinians, apparently to make way for Israeli settler expansion and cut the territory into two. This is a Nakba but worse. A catastrophe. But the world seems to remain silent. On a deeper level – many are asking when will the help of Allah come? How do we deal with this situation as a personal trauma. 

My guest today, is Imam Fuad Abdo, himself from palestine. Imam Fuad is the imam of Goodmayes Mosque, and someone who I have seen firsthand at the forefront of activism – especially encouragement the encampment movement.

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The US elections are in full flow, with the two big parties focussing on the key swing states that will decide this election. In states like Michigan, a slight movement of voters can determine the outcome. And this means Muslim voters may play a decisive role.

To help us understand the political and intellectual climate, I have invited back onto the show Imam Tom Facchine show. Imam Tom has been instrumental in galvanising Muslims behind the anti-Harris campaign, and he joins us from Pennsylvania.

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Timestamps

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2:09 - Mehdi re Trump worse

8:31 – You are supporting Trump

11:43 – Trump vs Harris

17:47 – Lesser of the two evils

22:33 – Emgage and Harris

29:38 – Emgage no excuse

33:08 – Michigan is the showdown

40:46 – Green Party challenges

45:43 – Quantifying our Gaza votes

48:05 – Leverage within Democrats

50:55 – Staying at home

53:20 – US Exceptionalism

57:16 – Liberal ideology

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To help us unpick the relationship between Western foreign policy and media our guest this week is Hamza Yusuf is a British-Palestinian writer and journalist whose work focuses on Palestine. He has reported on daily life under occupation for Palestinians, including home demolitions and forced expulsion and the conditions for Palestinians in Israeli prisons. He is an investigative journalist at Declassified amongst other publications.

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